Gaston Diehl A call to the spiritual
For not having deviated from his already long career -his first exhibition, at age 17 was in 1956- Pérez Celis is almost considered as an exception, here and even more in Argentina. Such fidelity to himself, to his goals, tends to disappear nowadays when sometimes it’s almost an obligation to follow someone else’s various changes of direction.
But it is necessary to point out at once that it is not only the project adopted from the beginning to dedicate itself to expressing the mythical face of that continent that travels in all its senses, because in this respect there is a legion of artists who pretend to do so although, unfortunately, most conform to some anecdotal or allegorical figures transposed from folklore.